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Aug.20.2012
"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand on those who wrote them."Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1820
image via blog.patrickrothfuss.comI'm finding this particularly true, from my genre mysteries to the...
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Aug.19.2012
I installed a Roku the other day. Hooked it up to my wireless and the office television, activated the thing and prepared to go to town with watching television over the Internet via a box top set.
Let me tell you, the experience is over-rated.
You can add many, many channels through...
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Aug.15.2012
I've just come across another tirade against the literary worth of "Fifty Shades of Grey" To my mind - unfairly perhaps - these tales of woe come from people who praise anything with Vampires in them. Go figure. One persons desire to have sex with fangs is another persons toothless wonder. But I...
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Aug.13.2012
I'm getting too old for this stuff, it seems like. First I worked for my employer, call to call, problem to problem, email to email, spreadsheet to spreadsheet, dot dot dot. Then I took off in the mid afternoon to write.
It was a hot walk down to the coffee shop and a hotter walk back. Sweat...
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Aug.12.2012
Busy day yesterday, walkin', readin', writin', runnin' 'round, again, another of those days others should be fortunate enough to live, when you have the time and wherewithal to decide what you want to do and not be driven by others.
Wrote like crazy in the morning. Got myself to the...
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Aug.06.2012
I am obviously a bad boy (or a slacker) for I have read but one of these books - To The Lighthouse byVirginia Woolf . And I didn't find it difficult at all - in fact, I've read it twice. And I have been planning to read Finnegans Wake for decades. Really, I have. As for philosophy - well...
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Aug.03.2012
I keep forgetting how inspirational reading is, how it triggers and inspires new ideas, new avenues to explore, different perspective, refreshing and invigorating old story ideas, planting the seeds for new ones.
Some of them grow so fast, my excitement propels me to the keyboard, to capture...
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Aug.02.2012
I have been reading seriously for a long time. And I can't imagine a life without books. As someone wise once said, "If you find reading boring, you're not doing it right."
Which begs the question, what does it mean to "do it right?"
A particularly fine place to read
I think the...
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Jul.31.2012
You and I have a fundamentally different relationship to these words. I wrote them and you read them. In some ways, this is an unbridgeable gap. But in some ways, there is no gap whatsoever. Particularly, if you believe that reading is writing.
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Jul.30.2012
I'm in the countdown mode. Only ten days of freedom remain before I am hitched to the plow, and pulling that heavy workload again.
This has been a good summer. The best I've had in many years. I started my summer break with a trip to Georgia with my two sons. The time together was rare, and very...
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